Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Commonwealth contest

I happen to listen on some of the other competitors frequencies to learn more about their operating techniques. I was quite amazed that operators in rural areas could hear much
better than I could here in the "big smoke".

From the previous post I was hoping to give the 40 m ground plane antenna a good workout, however the action was elsewhere.

(b) The “latitude factor” will be re-calculated each year
based on published scores: for each hemisphere, the highest-scoring
team total for each of the last three years will be used to give an
overall total and the factor will be calculated as the ratio of the
northern to the southern grand totals rounded down to the nearest two
decimal places.